An experimental evaluation of an experience-based capture-recapture method in software code inspections

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 381-406

  Runeson, Per ^a   Wohlin, Claes ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Defect content estimation; Experience based estimation; Experiment; Software inspection

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA REDUCTION; INSPECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; ESTIMATION;

CAPTURE-RECAPTURE ESTIMATIONS; DEFECT CONTENT ESTIMATIONS; EXPERIENCE-BASED ESTIMATIONS; SOFTWARE CODE INSPECTIONS; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE METHOD; SOFTWARE CODE INSPECTION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032309787     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009728205264     Document Type: Article

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